Posted by georgesbasement on Aug 06, 2017; 8:33pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/How-to-Create-a-Block-tp5715012p5715161.html

Hello delius - I read through your posting history and had already decided that if I had any direct questions about LibreCad, I would ask you first. Your suggestion to check Free Snap worked wonders for me, although it gives no visual feedback regarding its selection or not selection. I'm sure it wasn't programmed that way; I just haven't become aware of how it tells me, except with the ensuing behavior, which is night & day different and satisfactory.

Now I have progressed to separate files,one with my unadorned entities, the other with their text identifications alone, but suitably arranged still to identify the entities on the finished product, as I intend to have the identities first burned into the raw material (a 12 by 12 inch sheet of 1/8th inch  brass) from one file; and then to cut the entities themselves free in a second burn. The text data isn't in the text layer, as it started out in the 0 layer, but I was able to select the drawn entities from the original hybrid 0 layer and delete them, followed by saving that drawing as the text data. I then opened the hybrid 0 layer again (from a separately saved copy), deleted all the text data and saved that file as the entities-only file, thereby leaving me with two separate files for the separate laser-cutting operations. This saved me from the Create Block hassle which I have yet to solve.
Best regards,
georgesbasement